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Color pale brown ; the silvery lateral band about as wide as the short 

 diameter of the eye; a series of about 9 pearly minute spots each sur- 

 rounded by a narrow ring of dark brown on the throat in front of the 

 root of the ventrals. These are probably phosphorescent in life, and pos- 

 sibly also the lace-like sculpture on the top of the head. Color in life 

 greenish. The body in life is covered with mucus. 



In November, 1910, Mr. L. L. Mowbray observed many individuals of 

 this species on North Rock ledge. The same Fry was exceedingly com- 

 mon around some of the islands near the entrance to Hamilton Harbor 

 in February, 1912. 



Types, from 2 to 2}£ inches long, in U. S. National Museum. No. 

 74,084. 



Eucrotus gen. now, Stromateidse or Icosteidse. 



Body short ovate, deep, strongly compressed, covered with small cycloid 

 scales; scales extending upon the dorsal. Head moderate, the interor- 

 bital space broad. Eye moderate, snout short, obtuse, truncate; margin 

 of preopercle with flexible spines; lower margin of subopercle and part 

 of opercle finely serrate. Mouth moderate, oblique, with one row of 

 small teeth in the jaws; vomer and palate toothless. Gill openings wide ; 

 gillrakers moderate, close set. One dorsal, high, with a few flexible 

 spines in front, beginning over hind margin of eye, its rays numerous. 

 Anal high and long; caudal round; base of vertical fins closely com- 

 pressed, with scales extending well upon them; ventrals large, I, 5. 

 Branchiostegals 7; pseudobranchiae present, small. Skeleton soft. 

 Pelagic. 



Eucrotus ventralis sp. now 



D. VII, 84; A. II, 24 ; V. I, 5; pores in lateral line 106. 



Depth of body % the distance from front of pupil to base of caudal. 

 Eye slightly longer than snout, 3)4 ' n head. Head 3 in total to caudal 

 base. Mouth moderate, oblique, jaws equal, maxilla reaching to below 

 middle of eye. Interorbital width 3 in head. Dorsal spines graduated, 

 the first short, inserted over hind margin of preopercle, the seventh 2% 

 in head. The pectoral reaches to below base of 14th dorsal ray; ventral 

 as long as pectoral, X% in head, extending to anal origin. Anal origin 

 midway between tip of snout and base of caudal, the longest ray % head. 

 Nostrils in front of middle of eye, posterior one much the larger. 



Color, grayish silvery with numerous dark spots and blotches. Four 

 short, narrow, dark bands on top of head, the first one behind premaxilla. 

 Many mucus pores on head. 



A single example, 5% inches long, was taken by Louis L. Mowbray, 

 August, 1911, in floating Sargassum in Eastern Channel, Bermuda. The 

 specimen is in the Museum of the Bermuda Natural History Society. 



